Archive for January 2013

Dr. Sue Rickers, an assistant professor in the social work program at Bemidji State University, will deliver an Honors Council Lecture on social workers and the phenomenon of self-compassion. Her Feb. 7 lecture, entitled “The Experience of Self-Compassion in Social Workers,” will take place at 7 p.m. in Hagg Sauer Hall, room 112, on the […]

Dr. Mark Christensen, professor of English at Bemidji State University, will give a senior vocal recital in Bemidji State’s Carl O. Thompson Recital Hall on Feb. 16. The recital begins at 3 p.m. and is open free to the public. Christensen has been teaching at Bemidji State for 23 years, and will be graduating with […]

On Sunday, January 27 the Bemidji Baroque Ensemble will be playing at 3pm in the Carl O. Thompson Recital Hall on the Bemidji State University campus. The ensemble has been working together for 35 years and consists of Dr. Patrick Riley, BSU professor emeritus of music; Natalie Roholt; and Margaret Maxwell. Melanie Hanson, concert master […]

More than 400 high school and college students from across Minnesota and northwest Wisconsin will visit Bemidji State University on Feb. 16 for the Minnesota TRiO Association’s 10th annual TRiO Day. The event, which begins at 10 a.m., will provide information and workshops intended to help both high school and college students alike prepare for […]

Jessie Fisher, a senior music major at Bemidji State University, will perform a vocal recital at the university’s Thompson Recital Hall located in the Bangsberg Fine Arts Complex. Fisher, from Bemidji, Minn., will perform Jan. 26 at 7 p.m. as part of her bachelor’s degree in music, with an emphasis in vocal performance. She is […]

Emily Wendland, a senior in art at Bemidji State University, has been awarded the Eugene Dalzotto Purchase Award for the 2012-2013 academic school year. Eugene Dalzotto, a former BSU art professor and chair of the visual arts department established a fund in 1992 to promote Bemidji State by honoring the exceptional work of art students. […]

Dr. John (Tom) Murphy, an associate professor of history at Bemidji State University, will deliver an Honors Council Lecture on Jan. 24 at 7 p.m. The lecture, entitled “’Gd active bus men, energetic & of gd habs’: Measuring the Worth of Sutlers & Post Traders in the American West, 1840-1880,” will discuss his study on […]

Lexie Kruse, a senior music major at Bemidji State University, will try out for the prestigious U.S. Army Field Band next month at Ft. Meade, Md. Kruse’s tryout came through a two-decade relationship between Dr. Del Lyren, professor of music at Bemidji State, and Ginger Turner, former principal trumpet in the Army Field Band who […]

For students interested in studying abroad, there has never been a better time to be enrolled at Bemidji State University. BSU students currently have opportunities to study abroad in the university’s long-running EuroSpring and Sino Summer programs, and BSU’s international study and teaching options will soon undergo significant expansion as a result of exchange agreements […]

Bemidji State University’s faculty electronic music ensemble, the MIDiots, has landed a gig at one of the Midwest’s premier jazz clubs. On Feb. 15, the group will follow Kansas City blues artist Kelley Hunt at The Dakota Jazz Club and Restaurant in Minneapolis. The MIDiots will play two 45-minute sets featuring jazz standards and original […]